Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quotes

If you want to make a decision in life on what to do, but if you're trying systematically, through spiritual practice, through meditation, through the invocation of the name of God, to walk closer and closer in this life to Him, you need someone to guide you. And God has made it possible in Islam for this guidance to exist.

I've always said that God will somehow enlighten me.

Whose the spiritual people pon earth. The Black people. Dem a deal wit God. And God no let dem down.

Faith isn't the ability to believe long and far into the misty future. It's simply taking God at His Word and taking the next step.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message.

I believe God lets us go through all of what we go through for a reason and it's all part of a continued learning curve and journey of revelation and knowledge.

My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.

They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.

You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.

For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself.

I find that my upbringing in the Church and my relationship with God are huge benefits to me in helping me become the kind of person that I want to become.

All God's children need traveling shoes.

There are many concepts of spirituality, among them, various notions of divinity developed in the Judaeo-Christian-Islamic religions. Within these the concepts vary greatly.

I don't believe that people create their own visions. Rather, I believe that visions are actually God's way of communicating with us.

The Holy Spirit illuminates the minds of people, makes us yearn for God, and takes spiritual truth and makes it understandable to us.

I believe in Islam. I am a Muslim and there is nothing wrong with being a Muslim, nothing wrong with the religion of Islam. It just teaches us to believe in Allah as the God.

I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.

We live our lives by philosophies, amid worldly affairs and occupations that totally absorb us and are a great distance from the manger. In all kinds of ways, God has to prod us and reach out to us again and again, so that we can manage to escape from the muddle of our thoughts and activities and discover the way that leads to him. But a path exists for all of us. The Lord provides everyone with tailor-made signals.

When a man gets up so high (spiritual mountaintop) that he cannot reach down and save poor sinners, there is something wrong.

I'm here today because God has brought me here. Jesus has brought me here...I'm with an amazing team. I believe He perfectly placed me in the right spot at the right time.

I took that bible and I went home and I held it up and I said God, I really don't know you and I don't know myself and I don't know life, but I believe the answers are in this book.

Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams and smoke.